relationship between banks'' risk of failure, market structure, bank ownership, and banks'' screening and bankruptcy costs. These …,000 bank-year observations for 133 non-industrialized countries during the 1993-2004 period. Four main results obtain. First …, the positive and significant relationship between bank concentration and bank risk of failure found in Boyd, De Nicolò and …

shareholders; (ii) implementing the new related party lending regulation with tightened definitions; (iii) strengthening oversight … of foundations when they are the controlling shareholders in banks; and (iv) facilitating the transformation of large …

governance. This form of oversight is the decision-making responsibility through which an internal body of the central bank …-the Oversight Board-ensures that the central bank is well-managed. First, the paper will contextualize the role of Board oversight … into the broader legal structure for central bank governance by considering this form of oversight as one of the core …

: 100 percent small shareholders or one large, controlling owner combined with small shareholders. In this paper, we …

We examine how bank competition in the run-up to the 2007-2009 crisis affects banks' systemic risk during the crisis …. We then investigate whether this effect is influenced by two key bank characteristics: securitization and bank capital …. Using a sample of the largest listed banks from 15 countries, we find that greater market power at the bank level and higher …